xvi, 622 pages : 24 cm

"Revision of standard college textbook includes new sections on the European arrival in America, NAFTA, and the Colombian 'drug lords.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Includes bibliographical references and index

Ancient America -- Hispanic background -- Conquest of America -- Economic foundations of colonial life -- State, church, and society -- Colonial Brazil -- Bourbon reforms and Spanish America -- Independence of Latin America -- Dictators and revolutions -- Triumph of neocolonialism -- Society and culture in the nineteenth century -- Latin America in the twentieth century -- Mexican revolution -- and after -- Argentina : the failure of democracy -- Chilean way -- Republican Brazil -- Storm over the Andes : the struggle for land and development in the central Andean area -- Cuban revolution -- Revolution and counterrevolution in Central America : twilight of the tyrants? -- Lands of Bolivar : Venezuala and Colombia in the twentieth century -- Two Americas : United States -- Latin American relations -- Latin American society in transition

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